Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, has pledged to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court, if he is elected. Yet, until Sen. Kamala D. Harris’s historic choice as Biden’s vice-presidential nominee, Black women also were the most overlooked and taken for granted. “I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a Black woman on the Supreme Court to make sure we in fact get everyone represented,” he said. Black women will yet again be relegated to the back of the line, after 200-plus years of being shut out of the Supreme Court, where Black men, White women and a Latina have served or are now serving. Perhaps my biggest sadness about what is unfolding right now is that our first Black president, Barack Obama, should have nominated a Black woman to the Supreme Court.

Source: Washington Post September 25, 2020 10:41 UTC